fglrx failed to install

[Na-Fiann]

Hi,

I tried installing catalyst 10.9, but it fails to install, with the error:

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-25-generic (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/ for more information.

in the make.log file, it says:

DKMS make.log for fglrx-8.771 for kernel 2.6.32-25-generic (x86_64)
Wed Sep 29 11:58:07 CEST 2010
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
rm -rf *.c *.h *.o *.ko *.GCC* .??* *.symvers
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic'
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_agp.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_debug.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.o
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.c: In function ?KCL_IOCTL_AllocUserSpace32?:
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.c:196: error: implicit declaration of function ?compat_alloc_user_space?
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.c:196: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/2.6.x] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic'
make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
build failed with return value 2

Any idea what goes wrong here? is there anything I can do? maybe change kernel?

[Kano]

Use my script:

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
DISPLAY= sudo sh install-fglrx-debian.sh -z

then reboot.

[Na-Fiann]

Thanks, I tried to, but got another error:

Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  fglrx-amdcccle: Depends: fglrx but it is not going to be installed
  fglrx-dev: Depends: fglrx but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libstdc++5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libstdc++5 has no installation candidate
Error: module-assistant missing.
Hint: Enable universe repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.

running 'sudo apt-get -f install' gave me:

Removing fglrx-amdcccle ...
dpkg: warning: while removing fglrx-amdcccle, directory '/usr/lib/fglrx' not empty so not removed.
Removing fglrx-dev ...
Removing fglrx ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
  when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by fglrx'
  found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fglrx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Kano]

Well your system is messed up, but not by my script.

[storma]

What distro are you running with, yesterday there was an update with Debian Squeeze that broke fglrx.

[Kano]

My own of course. Kanotix Hellfire works with fglrx as thats my script. irc://irc.freenode.net/#kanotix for more info. The script works with Debian.

[Na-Fiann]

I'm running Ubuntu lucid. It could be that I got that kernel update, but not quite sure what to do about it..

[Na-Fiann]

Okay I have some progress, I've now successfully uninstalled fglrx. I still can't install a new version though, as the install is broken on both 2.6.32.24 and 2.6.32.25 kernels. The only other kernel to which I can downgrade is 2.6.32.21, which I'm not sure is a good idea to do.

Strangely, I do still have 2.6.32.23 installed, on which fglrx does compile, but it also automatically try to install to either .24 or .25. Is there a way to prevent this? if so, I could only boot in that kernel for now.

[Na-Fiann]

... damn 1 minute limit...

for those interested: I solved the problems with synaptic by running the following

sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 
sudo dpkg --force-all --purge fglrx

[Kano]

You can use latest 2.6.36rc6:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35.7-maverick/

You need to install arch debs of linux-image/header + all header. best all in a new dir and then

sudo dpkg -i *.deb